#Mozilla Thunderbird Free Desktop Email

Click here to download a PDF copy of this guide with screenshots.The switch to LLVM 11/Rust 1.47 has made FF an order of magnitude faster. Close and reopen Thunderbird to finish the install.Discover how to set up Mozilla Thunderbird on Windows or MacOS with your Xplornet email. Click the Install button, and locate, select the file you downloaded and click 'OK'. In Thunderbird, open the extension manager in the Tools/Add-ons menu. Go to the link above for your operating system and follow the instructions on the addons.mozilla.org website.

A few years ago when Mozilla anounced TB was no longer going to be developed and put on life support, it was a tragic bit of news. It's paid off with both performance improvements and useability improvements that were long overdue. But, the Mozilla folks have enlisted a whole slew of new folks to address ancient bugs and beat the cruft out of TB. Sadly, TB 78 ESR is still stuck on LLVM 9.0.1 and Rust 1.43.

Thunderbird includes tabbed e-mail, new search tools and indexing, smart. Thunderbird was designed to prevent viruses and to stop junk mail. Mozilla Thunderbird makes e-mailing safer, faster, and easier with features such as intelligent spam filters, a built-in RSS reader, and quick search. 78 has had a lot of growing pains and AddOn authors are still playing catch up.Download Latest Version for Mac. I can say with certainty that TB is not only alive and well but getting loads of fixing for the upcoming ESR release.

You can feel it while using the product. Ancient bunch finally getting attention.Cons: Not quite as peppy as Firefox using even the 64-bit version but years ahead of where it was since just this time last year.Bottom Line: The switch to LLVM 11/Rust 1.47 has made FF an order of magnitude faster. TB is still the best client out there bar none.Pros: Gets faster every iteration. 2021 is going to be a great year for TB and Mozilla in general.

I can say with certainty that TB is not only alive and well but getting loads of fixing for the upcoming ESR release. This year's culling of workforce at Mozilla made me worried too. A few years ago when Mozilla anounced TB was no longer going to be developed and put on life support, it was a tragic bit of news. It's paid off with both performance improvements and useability improvements that were long overdue. But, the Mozilla folks have enlisted a whole slew of new folks to address ancient bugs and beat the cruft out of TB.

But, it's great to see that PGP integration is finally getting it's due in Thunderbird.If Mozilla's new offshot company that's handling Thunderbird can FINALLY get PGP right (where countless others have failed miserably), everyone will dump whatever cobbled together software hydra they've been using and switch to Thunderbird.Pros: 64-bit salvation finally here! More robust and far more performant than 32-bit 52.x and previous versions. It doesn't need to get more complicated than that. It's a simple word processor that sends and received email. Emails clients don't need to change much to be honest. It's kind of sad that a lot of what used to make the era of Outlook and Eudora so pleasant was that NO ONE wanted to get saddle with crappy things like Outlook Web or the early Yahoo web-based email UI.Thunderbird has been plugging along for around 15 years+ years now in some form or another and the more things change, the more it stays the same.

It's the best, sod the rest!Pros: Yahoo seems to actually work in this build. Plus, if it weren't for the calendaring feature and integration with my GMail, I'd forget what the heck I'm supposed to be doing on a daily basis. 64-bit has been like a hot knife through butter managing my emails, filters and calendars. 32-bit sucks at handling that well. These days, people send you 10-20MB emails with monster JPGs and PDFs.

Mozilla Thunderbird Free Desktop Email

That said, this is still the only totally free desktop email client that does most of what anyone could want and as far as I've heard its NOT going to be ruined like Firefox. But hey, it would probably take devs three years to get it working right so maybe its just as well we have to rely on GContactSync and Provider for Google Calendar. Would also be nice if they would natively support Gmail contacts and calendar, seeing as how their the most-used services of their kind. Happens about every third release of TB. Will this ever be fixed? LOL, why am I even asking?Bottom Line: Gettin' REEEAL tired of having my profile completely wiped when upgrading. Calendar still displays alerts *before* checking to see if they have already been viewed.

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